Alice Weidel, May 19, 2022, Economy and War

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/37, pp. 3495-3496.

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable Herr Chancellor. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

Germany is stuck, politically, economically and financially, in one of the worst crises since the Second World War. Inflation has arrived at a long-term high level and strangles the Mittelstand and middle class. Today, not a word of that was mentioned. Our energy supply stands on the brink. In the autumn threatens a general collapse. The migration crisis is unresolved, the onset of illegal migration over the Mediterranean and over the land routes reaches new record levels. Russia’s aggressive war against the Ukraine is a catalyst which has heightened the crisis and reveals the deficit of our military and security policy. That your coalition cannot for once agree to put the 100 billion euros foreseen for the Bundeswehr actually into our own army shows that you still have not got the message.

The origin of the crisis however is quite other, and is in fact a false, misguided policy. The energy transition with the simultaneous withdrawal from atomic power and the use of coal has put the energy prices into high gear and caused the one-sided dependency on Russian natural gas. You sat in the government, Chancellor Scholz. Irresponsible debts policy, forbidden monetary state financing and the ECB’s zero interest rate policy, the consequences of which are the devaluation of the euro and thereby increased import prices, are nevertheless the actual origins of the inflation. And nothing of that was made mention of here today.

The repressive Corona policy and the not thought through sanctions have ruptured delivery chains and diminished supply while the money supply explodes. The decline of the euro robs citizens of purchasing power and prosperity.

Harsher climate goals and the forced build up of so-called renewable energies will not make us more independent, but will even more intensify the energy crisis. Harsher climate goals will plunder our household. They will burden our budget as we never before have seen.

And you will not be able to continue to make debts; since public debt ever more heats up the inflation and suppresses private demand.

The Russia sanctions packets are counter-productive. They harm Germany and Europe more than Russia. An oil and gas embargo against Russia would be completely ruinous; since a durable replacement for the omitted deliveries stays in the stars.

Highly dangerous are plans to abolish the unanimity principle in central questions. That is an anti-democratic interdiction of the national states.

Common debts for the reconstruction of the Ukraine are nothing other than a further construction of the debts union at the cost of the German taxpayer.

And under cover of the fight against disinformation and mis-use, the EU manages the total surveillance of private communication.

Beyond that is also planned an EU-wide assets register so as to encompass all private properties. That is a further step in the expropriation of the citizens so as to obstruct their flight from the diminishing inflation money to real assets.

Herr Chancellor, when you go to the EU Council meetings, your foremost duty then is to look after German interests and to oppose these efforts.

Give the highest priority to fighting inflation and to securing the energy supply. Inflation robs the citizens. It is the most unsozial of taxes. It is a cold tax on assets which affects before all the working and productive middle of the economy and society. Inflation is not fought with redistribution, but with less debt, tax reductions and a concentration on core duties of the state.

Thus forsake the wrong way of the energy transition. Take care that coal and nuclear power plants continue to run and shutdown reactors are again started up; since, according to the EU, atomic power is green and CO₂ neutral.

And before all: Do everything to quickly end the war in Europe. We share your concern over an escalation. You have stated that Russia is not allowed to win, yet as an atomic power should not be pushed into a situation without an exit. The war in the Ukraine is not our war. We are not allowed to let ourselves be swept away by buzz words, propaganda and emotions, but we need to represent our own interests – and which are an armistice and peace. The Ukraine war has reached a stage at which, instead of continual new weapons deliveries, the path of negotiations needs to be pursued so as to prevent a years-long war of attrition.

Position yourself against the extreme green feelings politicians who without further ado have switched from an infantile pacifism to a moralizing bellicosity.

And remind your Minister that content-free phrases are not foreign policy. Who goes to Kiev needs also go to Moscow so as to again take up the lines of conversation. Please pursue the path of reason.

Many hearty thanks.

 

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Joachim Wundrak, May 13, 2022, National Security Council

German Bundestag, May 13, 2022, Plenarprotokoll 20/35, pp. 3333-3334.

Herr President. Valued colleagues.

Following these emotional themes, a more sober, political theme. For years, no, for decades is discussed in professional circles in Germany the theme of a lack of a national security policy comprehensive strategy. In times of crisis, the theme briefly attains the attention of the political parties and the media, and then again disappears from the discussion.

Up to today, the strategic reality was that Germany out-sourced its energy policy to Moscow, its economic policy to Peking and its security policy to Washington, and the rest for the most part will be decided in Brussels. The German security policy thus for long is lacking in setting long-term national security goals so as to do justice to the Basic Law’s promises to the German citizens of peace, freedom, security and prosperity. 

Germany thus increasingly is no match for the present challenges of a dramatically changing world order and an international competition of systems becoming ever harsher. The origin of this is the lack of a long-term, realistic, stringent national strategy free of ideology which clearly and distinctly formulates German interests. It is thus to be fundamentally welcomed that the Federal government has resolved in its first year in office to put forward a national security strategy. Nevertheless, the Foreign Minister’s estimate put forward in regards the initial event for the development of such a national security strategy clearly falls short.

To work up a national security strategy, to critically and continuously evaluate and update this in its entire breadth, and before all to survey and to enforce its implementation, cannot be the responsibility of a single department. This must unconditionally be the central point. The obvious weak points of the crisis management in connection with the Ukraine war emphatically underline this.

Domestic and foreign security policy developments already for long no more allow themselves to be considered separately. Present and future complex challenges can only be overcome when foreign, defense, domestic, economic and energy policy dimensions are incorporated and applied to well understood national interests.

Durable realpolitische solutions and strategic security policy decisions require a far look forward as well as clearly defined national security policy goals. If such a realpolitische interpretation [Durchdringung] of the world situation is not put forward, the Federal government in the best case can react in the short-term to critical events. We well enough know these passages by sight from the last years. Mid- and long-term, this policy nonetheless leads to further loss of freedom of action in foreign, security and economic policy and thereby to an increasing dependency on other powers. With the utmost pain, we directly experience this, especially in the failed energy policy in connection with the war in the Ukraine and its consequences. Germany thus needs to be in the position to prevent the threatening decline in the international concert and also to be able to enforce its national interests which have to serve the welfare of the citizens.

Against this background, we propose [Drucksache 20/1746] to comprehensively reconstruct the present Federal Security Council into a standing, inter-departmental [Ressortübergreifenden] National Security Council and with efficient and lean structures to build – not unconditionally according to the American, rather according to the French and Japanese and yet also to the Austrian model.

            Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU/CSU): That is an interesting mix!

This National Security Council is formed together with, in a broad sense of security, the relevant ministers and will be led by the Chancellor. A National Security advisor, who is placed directly under the Chancellor and whose staff is settled in the Chancellor’s Office, leads the daily business of this National Security Council. For that, it also has access to the relevant information, particularly to the respective central stores of all affected departments.

With this toolbox [Instrumentarium], the Federal government should be placed in the position to develop preventive and long-term strategies into a German national comprehensive security strategy and then to institutionalize and implement it. So as to democratically legitimate this distinct strengthening of the Chancellor’s position in the executive, an appropriate parliamentary control committee should be installed.

Valued colleagues, against the background of the increasing insecurity and risks in the world, I ask you to queue the partisan political considerations and vote for our motion.

Many thanks for your attention.

 

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Bernd Baumann, May 11, 2022, Clan Criminality

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/33, pp. 3018-3019.

It happened a few days ago in the middle of Germany: 100 men fighting with firearms on the public streets; in the center of the firefight, Turkish-Arab clans – this time in Duisburg. And this is no single instance. Clan criminality explodes. The police, left alone by the politics, are powerless. And all of you here for decades are deadly silent on this problem. It was us of the AfD who for the first time spoke on this theme in the Bundestag. I myself made the speech on this and thereafter for months required police protection. We call that courage for the truth [Mut zur Wahrheit], ladies and gentlemen, which you do not have.

The current numbers again show how necessary this is: Let us take just the largest Federal State, NRW [Nordrhein-Westfalen]: In 2019, the State Criminal Office there identified around 100 clan families with, up to then, 14,000 criminal acts, in part the most serious. Today, just three years later, it is already more than twice as many: 32,000 in NRW alone. Typical crimes in this regard: Serious crimes of violence, murder on the public street, assault and robbery, extortion of protection money, theft and fraud. The clans deal in weapons, in drugs, in women whom they force into their bordellos. 20 billion euros, so high is the police experts’ estimate of the loot from organized criminality each year alone in NRW. Clans have a large share of that.   

Ladies and gentlemen, something like this must be fought consistently, and you for years have not done that – not even in this house. Mere police raids are simply of no use, are hollow shows. The citizens in front of the televisions should just be pacified; it will anyway be done. The clans laugh at that. The numbers prove that. Here, the Interior Ministers of all parties failed all along the line, and that for years and decades, ladies and gentlemen.

We need instead to fundamentally improve the legal, personnel and technical outfitting of police and justice, even so the networking between Bund and States. The BRICK initiative which you have made is much too little. Lead criminal clan members without a German passport need to be deported, and that right quick, ladies and gentlemen. We need a complete strategy. Meantime, the clans have over 200,000 members here in this country. Soon, that is as many as the police in Germany altogether. That is more than the Bundeswehr has soldiers. We need to push back the attack of oriental large families. Vote for our 18 point plan [Drucksache 20/1743]!

How dramatic is the situation is seen in that individual police commanders have already resigned. The services leader for Organized Criminality Office in the Federal State of Bremen said – I cite:

The problem is not be solved by means of the police. The structures here are already too solidified.

How is this? We in Europe have to do with a quite new phenomenon. Experts like the president of the German-Arab Society, Michael Lüders – formerly with the SPD foundation, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation – said, I cite: The societies of the Near East are quite different than in Western  Europe. They are – verbatim – “Determined by clan and tribal [Stammes] structures”. Police practitioners also confirm this, some of whom are from the Nordrhein-Westfalen State Criminal Office. They say verbatim:

            Here … behavior patterns from the areas of origin will continue to live                                    in Germany.

The police speak of ethno-cultural criminality, of ethno-clans, of imported criminality. It thus does not depend, as many here in parliament assert, on a failed integration policy, on alleged exclusion, on a lack of participation. No, the essential problems lie in the culture of origin. If you do not grasp this, you will never solve this problem in this country.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have here just now spoken of ethnics, of ethnic otherness [Fremdheit], of ethnic criminality. The Constitution Defense defines such statements as hostile to the Constitution. We however say: Naming the truth can never be hostile to the Constitution. It is particularly the core of our free order. The clan problem also shows this. It becomes time that we defend the Constitution from the Constitution Defense. And if Haldenwang now looks for me – I am later over there in my office.

            Lamya Kador (Greens): He well knows where you are.

 

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Dietmar Friedhoff, May 12, 2022, Seed Variety and Food Security

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 30/34, p. 3202.

Herr President. Valued colleagues.

It is about food security and the fight against hunger in the world, with the thereto combined maintenance of the urgently required seed variety. So that the seed of my speech falls on fruitful ground and we recognize that the theme is essentially complex, let us begin for once from the front.

Stephan Brandner (AfD): That is a good idea!

In the Bible is reported that in Eden a stream sprang forth. This stream divides into four rivers, one of which is the Euphrates, another the Tigris. In Iraq and Syria, these form the so-called Zweistromland, the Garden of Eden. Here, in the Mesopotamian flood plain is a well-watered realm. Here, the grain culture was cultivated, from here stem the oldest types of grain. All of this now unfortunately in a very brief time changes extremely.

What has happened? In the course of the Iraq War, Iraq’s existing seed bank in Abu Ghraib was destroyed. Thus in Iraq there are injunctions, proceeding from the victorious powers, which forbid the farmers to re-use the seeds. Thus hybrid plants must be used which they need to purchase from large, Western concerns, inclusive of fertilizer and pesticide. This brings the peasants to a maximum dependency and makes it too expensive for them to be able to work profitably, especially since ever more grain imports arrive in the country which are essentially cheaper. Beyond that, the water supply also is not well arranged, since in upper Iraq there are ever more reservoirs, one of which is the contested Ilisu reservoir in Turkey.

As you see, nothing in our ever faster, global world can be considered in isolation. That leads to false outcomes. On that account, it can truly be said, dear Union, that your motion is planted somewhat too short. Yet the intention is correct and sensible; on that account, we support your motion. We need to protect and strengthen the seed banks; they are after all likewise security, protection and freedom.

The fact is, 60 percent of our food stems from hybrid corn, wheat and rice plants; thus from plants which allow no seed reproduction. Meanwhile, three great concerns with their seed patents dictate the world’s food. We thus feed ourselves from the ever fewer seed holdings of ever fewer firms, which is actually fatal; since the local, domestic samenfest [pure line, open pollination] cultures are essentially more resilient against, for example, viruses and invasive species of plants. The more ur-seeds, wild seeds we have, the less becomes the likelihood of a thoroughly possible total harvest failure.

If we want to live durably and soundly, if we want to make our food system more resilient, and if we want to let the farmers and thereby the peoples of the world more freely act and organize [gestalten], then we need to not only protect and strengthen the world’s seed banks, but also actively commit to and implement the knowledge and possibilities locally. 

Thank you.

 

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